Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eleanor and Franklin, Lash...
...YORK TIMES Book Review piece last fall on Joseph Lash's Fleanor and Franklin. Professor Frank Freidel scolded gossips who place too much emphasis on the Lucy Mercer affair because "they lose sight of a larger significance: the solidarity and effectiveness of the Roosevelt marriage in the area of politics and reform." Those with a similarly enlightened view of the political potential for male-female relationships in modern American society will give thanks that at least one Harvard publishing unit is still willing to lose money on an item of political and social importance--such as this complete collection...
...other living winners included: in biography (a category formerly combined with history), Joseph Lash's splendidly affectionate Eleanor and Franklin (Norton); in arts and letters, Pianist Charles Rosen's demanding study of The Classical Style in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (Viking); in science, George L. Small's ecological lament for the disappearance of The Blue Whale (Columbia University); in philosophy and religion, Martin E. Marty's Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (Dial); and for translation, Austryn Wain-house's heroic failure to quite transform French Nobel Prizewinner Jacques Monod...
...Eleanor and Franklin, Lash...
...Game of the Foxes, Farago (I) 2-Tracy and Hepburn, Kanin (3) 3-Eleanor and Franklin, Lash (2) 4-Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown (6) 5-The Moon's a Balloon, Niven (4) 6-The Defense Never Rests, Bailey with Aronson (5) 7 -Souls on Fire, Wiesel 8-The Last WholeEarth Catalog, Portola Institute (7) 9-The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masferman 10-The Show Business Nobody Knows, Wilson